November is Here

Marlie has a birthday, see MarvelousMarlie.blogspot.com

california
warm days
cold nights
almost frost
not quite

the days shorter
the nights longer

a good time
for enlightenment
or
a good book
or
good sex
or
good
night
and
a cup of tea
and a good
book

i already said
a good book
oh well

rereading Shipping News
via fine

not doing enough
yoga
is that true?

i don't know

and i
don't know
is
yust
a sweet
plaze
to life


ciao
chris

Yust something...

I was siting with my self and try to be present.
Sometimes i am, sometimes my mind yust wondering arond.



It is part of the game.And it is good to play...
Everything is a diferent vibration.
Sound, colours, smell, anything that we can fill...
Yust diferent vibration.
So it means we are part of it. Me, you, everyone.
And beceause of that nothing is realy matter...
cause everything IS...
and on the other hands
nothing IS...

There is no cup of tee without a tee...
cup is border between tee and everything around it.
One side of a cup-tee
other side of cup-space around.

Where do you ends and space begin?

Robert, somewhere in Europe

Good stuff from Eva Lina

From Eva Lina

Hi,
I also just started teaching yoga to children. The idea occurred after two years of teaching dance to children... However, my suggestions are : a lot of play! I write a short story before each session. Each story includes different animals, trees, tea pots (for triangle pose),...But I also include some other movements, like waving the hands, "flying" around the room... Before we start doing yoga, I just let them move, run, jump....I think they need some kind of movement before they feel comfortable enough to stand, sit or lie still for a few seconds...

At the beginning of the class I tell the children to lie down and pretend to be sound asleep in their bed...or pretend they are the sea and their tummies are waves that go up and down as the wind blows...Or I make up something else...In the meantime I read them the story and then ask them to tell me what they remembered from the story...Then we go through the story together and we try to act out all the things...For example, we are riding the bike to the mountain where we meet the cat, and then later on we meet a dog...we sit on a chair and drink tea from the tea pot...lie on the grass and watch the gasshoppers, crocodiles... Something like that. I even ask them to make up their own story (which is more appropriate for children over 6 years of age).... However, I try to make them use their imagination and creativity, and never force them to do anything they don't want to do. On occasion we did some origami and used the "masterpieces" for breathing techniques...On another occasion I handed them sheets of paper and some crayons and asked them to draw me their favorite animal and later they had to imitate all the animals from the drawings which was a little hard because I was never sure if the dog I saw on the drawing wasn't a crocodile in the child's imagination...

There was a 5 year old boy who came to my class and he was so full of energy that he made other kids jump and run all around the studio...I felt like Arnold Schwarzeneger in "The Kindergarten Cop" movie... So, I tried to give him an important role - he was a leader monkey who had to take other monkeys on a trip from one end of the room to the other...this seemed to work. He felt important and it was easier to "control" him....

There is another thing that I am not sure if I'm right about, but anyway...I don't correct the poses the children do...At least not too much. I realized that they do the same pose differently each time...So I just let them imitate me as best as they can.

These are just some of my tips. I hope you can find any of it useful for your class.

Blessings from Slovenia!

Eva Lina
hali.lina@gmail.com

Hello, and Rain is here in California

today
the first of the real rains,
all day,
cloudy skies
fall
ish
weather
or not
we are ready for it

first frosts hinting
around the corner

and how is
the meditation
called life
treating every
one

ciao
love
stuff

chris

Hi again, and what will it be this time?

okay wonderful people

here's a few more,
and waiting
for to
hear from
you
all

i really need that

is that true?
no.

want it,
though.

and not getting
what i want
is what happens
sometimes
isn't it??

photo trip, i do not know which part...

notice the suave hairdo, says the one named Chris
(I actually felt some fairly
interesting and powerful stuff
as this went on)




OK...
anybody of you guys already teach?
OMMM from somewhere in Europe, Robert

What is new?

One morning

Lunch

The Dream of Ananda

the dream group, in its last dream night

Row
row
row your boat

gently down
the stream

merrily
merrily
merrily
merrily

life is but a dream


yes
a song
and
????
more

where did the
dream go?

maybe still
in our hearts

or up in the rivers

love,
chris

From Petit, email copy

Greetings and salutations to all!

As I road my bike early this morning (after doing my
energization exercises... for real!) I found the "what
is this light flowing through my veins...." theme song
for YTT 2007 flowing through my head...

and I thought
of all of you.

I hope this finds you happy and
healthy and keeping the pace of Ananda somehow in your
lives.

I've shared bits and pieces of our learnings
with great souls here in Three Rivers...

and they have really enjoyed it.

I look forward to taking it with me
wherever I go... and sharing when the time is right.

Soon I'm off to Colorado for a 7-day hut to hut mt.
bike ride to Utah...
then flying down to Chile to
explore some unchartered backcountry skiing/boarding
terrain in Patagonia! Whew...

a long way from our
little temple at Ananda...

yet all connected and all
beautiful.

I send smiles and love and light to you... wishing you
joy, wonder and stillness amidst all you do.

Thanks again for everything!

Tedi's voice still echoes in my mind...

"Energy and
joy flood my body cells! Joy descends to me!"

Namaste,
Petit


(I'm working on a video for my "rap"... :)

FOTO Tri P 12

Masters of the universe...





Leonora s birthday. Cake was very tastefull...

foto trIP 11

FoTO TriP 10

eL pRESIDENTE??'


ohmmm...




Christian

foto trip9

Diksha


Girls are back in town...

foto trip 8